Conan's Corpse Picker

He clicked his tongue impatiently, and said in a low voice: "It just happened that the tire blew out in front of us, so I can't pretend not to see it—it's okay if they die in the mountains, and if they are lucky, they can walk out alive. Finding out that the license plate number of the car behind you is the same as the car you used to solve the previous few crimes, we are afraid that we will have another reputation of 'doing nothing'."

Kidd: "..."

... For the sake of fame, he hoped that others would die. This boss is really not a good person.

Kidd speculated about Jiang Xia's possible reaction at this time, nodded silently, and made no reply.

The distance between the two cars quickly narrowed.

In an instant, Toru Amuro changed from a gloomy face to a sunny and friendly working boy.

Under "Jiang Xia"'s complicated gaze, he pulled down the car window and looked at the unlucky car with a flat tire: "Are you all okay, do you have a spare tire on the car?"

Through the headlights, I can vaguely see two people sitting in the car.

……

Amuro Toru's voice sounded a little sympathetic and friendly.

Kidd glanced at him from behind, thinking that this man's acting skills are quite good.

While muttering, the door of the front car opened, and a hunchbacked old lady pushed the door open and got down from the driver's seat.

She looked down at the broken tire, and sighed: "My baby Felt probably won't be able to walk. I finished packing my luggage and forgot to put the spare tire back..." As she spoke, she looked up at Toru Amuro , "Young man, can you give me a ride to the nearby Twilight Lodge? I have to attend a dinner party there."

"...Twilight Villa?" Toru Amuro had a vague impression of this place name, but not deeply.

However, there was one thing he knew.

——The name of this place sounds like some foreign-style mansion far away from the urban area.

And along the way, those deep mountain mansions he met...

Chapter 584

Seeing that Anshi Toru fell into silence, the old lady raised her hand tremblingly, pointing to the deep forest:

"According to the direction you are walking now, it is actually very smooth - turn left at the fork in front, and you will be there in ten minutes.

"Although it's a bit capricious to say so, I hope you can give me a ride. That dinner is really important, and I'm about to be late..."

Kidd looked at the old lady who was trying to get a ride, then at Toru Amuro, and leaned back on the back of the chair.

... He originally planned to wait until the intersection leading to the Twilight Annex, and try to damage Toru Amuro's car.In this way, in such a place with no signal, you can only look for houses within sight and call for help—such as the Twilight Villa in the distance.

That was exactly Kidd's destination.

However, Kidd observed the current situation and realized that this time, it seemed that he didn't need to bother.

Because if I remember correctly, the old lady who came to hitch a ride is actually a celebrity.

——Her name is Chigenyo, and she is a well-known easy chair detective, that is, the kind of detective who can deduce the situation simply by listening to the client's narrative at home without going to the scene.

Kidd felt that, as a colleague, Toru Amuro should know her.And according to what Toru Amuro muttered before parking the car, even if it was for the reputation of Amuro Detective Agency, the boss would not refuse such a convenient request for a ride, after all, the Twilight Annex is really not too far from here.

……

Although Toru Amuro looked worried, he finally sighed, nodded, and agreed.

Granny Qianjian thanked her.

Then she returned to her own car, opened the co-pilot's door, and pushed the person inside: "Wake up, we have to change cars."

Through the car window, Kidd looked curiously at the passenger seat of the car ahead.

In his impression, according to previous investigations, Mother-in-law Qianjian didn't open a detective agency, nor did she have any assistants, and usually lived alone at home.Why did she bring an extra person to the party this time?

Just as he was thinking, he saw a strange young man getting out of the car in front of him.

The man seemed to have just woken up, his fluffy natural curly hair was slightly disturbed by sleep, at this moment he was yawning, as he got out of the car, he took out a pair of light-colored sunglasses from his pocket, opened them and placed them on the bridge of his nose.

Toru Amuro was leaning on the window frame, wondering if he had to live in the "twilight annex" tonight.

Spotting another person in the car in front get out of the car, he glanced casually.

Then his eyes stopped.

...Matsuda? ?

……

Several of Toru Amuro's close friends are all dead now.

Among them was Matsuda Jinping, who was shattered by the bomb.

Although Matsuda's body was hard to identify when he died, he was indeed the only one in the exploded Ferris wheel.The police should not commit such a thing as collecting the wrong corpse. Matsuda Jinpei is indeed dead.

but……

Toru Amuro suddenly remembered the figure he and Jiang Xia had seen in the mountains when they received the commission to "hire a killer to kill him" a while ago.

Although the distance was far away at the time, the figure of the acquaintance was easily recognizable.No matter how Toru Amuro looked at it, he felt that it was his old classmate who unfortunately died—the clothes and sunglasses might be naturally curly, but the behavior and figure of the acquaintance were unique and easy to identify.

But at that time, just a few seconds after watching it, the person whose height was suspected to be Matsuda Jinpei was washed away by the landslide.After digging for a long time, it didn't come out.

In addition, apart from Toru Amuro himself, no living person has ever seen "Matsuda Jinpei". In the end, Toru Amuro had no choice but to regard what happened that day as a hallucination.

……

However, he didn't expect that just after convincing himself that it was an illusion, he actually saw a person who looked like Matsuda Jinpei again.

... Even leaving aside the friendship between old classmates, the fact of "resurrecting from the dead" alone was enough to make Toru Amuro's breathing stop.

Just this time.

Toru Amuro looked at the people getting off from the car in front for a while with the help of the headlights, and gradually realized something was wrong.

——The "Matsuda Jinpei" I met this time, whether it was sunglasses, curly hair, or a black casual suit, was exactly the same as he remembered.But between the actions, there is no longer that sense of familiarity.

Take a closer look, although they look surprisingly similar, there are some differences from Matsuda...

"..." Could it be that the last time I saw in the mountains was not Matsuda, but this person in front of me?

As for the similar body shape... Maybe I saw the familiar outfit, so I unconsciously made up the corresponding actions?

……

The young version of "Matsuda Jinpei" that got out of Qianjian's mother-in-law's car was of course a puppet driven by Jiang Xia and constructed with Matsuda Jinpei as the main raw material.

The appearance of the puppet will neutralize the characteristics of the ghost fetus and the soul of the psychic.So now the Matsuda puppet looks a lot like Matsuda Jinping.

Previously, after Jiang Xia settled the body, she went down the road and bumped into Qianjian's car.

——Matsuda Jinpei's puppet, this person who he arranged to be "Xitu" smuggled from Burma under the pseudonym "Kurosawa Zuo", is currently an invisible person in society and has no corresponding detective status.It would be too suspicious if he went to the Twilight Villa alone as a guest.

So Jiang Xia bumped into a companion by himself.

When touching porcelain, in order to explain the problem of not bringing luggage and to make the old lady less vigilant, Jiang Xia had the ghost of her parents hanging on her body, and casually made up that she was a tourist who came to the mountains to commit suicide after suffering from a terminal illness.

Granny Qianjian seemed to have some empathy for this, and she had other plans, after a moment of silence, she let Jiang Xia get into the car, and the two became companions logically.

The last time "Xitu" was released in Danyuan Mountain, the Xitu buried by the landslide was opened by Matsuda Zhenping - after Jiang Xia swallowed the strange tear-shaped crystal, ghosts and shikigami They have been greatly increased.

In the past, if the vest wanted to move, Jiang Xia had to go into battle in person, but now, the ghosts can drive by themselves for a long time.

This is probably one of the reasons why Toru Amuro saw Xitu as Matsuda Jinpei the last time he was in the mountains, because it was indeed Matsuda Jinpei that was contained in the shell.

However, ghost fetuses are born unable to speak, even if they can run around with puppets, they cannot make a sound.And compared to Jiang Xia himself controlling the puppets, the ghosts are murderous and tiresome to drive.

So except for occasions where double opening is required, Jiang Xia usually goes into battle in person at other times.

...like now.

……

The headlights were dazzling, and Jiang Xia and Chigen Kodai, who were standing in front of the Mazda, did not see Toru Amuro's change from calm to shock and then to pretending to be calm.

Granny Qianjian woke up Jiang Xia, the companion she picked up on the way, and reminded him to change cars.

Then she walked over to Mazda in small steps, and randomly grabbed the Toolman smoothly.

Chapter 585 Why did you cheat again

Qianjian Jiangdai looked at "Jiang Xia" who was the co-pilot, startled for a moment, and recognized that this was a colleague.

Then he said with a smile: "It seems that I didn't need to say it just now, you will also go to the Twilight Villa...Young man, come and help me carry my luggage."

Kidd: "...?"

... The old lady has a young guy ready in her car, why should she drag him to carry the luggage?

Could it be that the natural scroll is one of her distant juniors, whom Qianjian's mother-in-law favored as her grandson? ... Hmph, doting is not worth it.

Kidd slandered Qianjian Detective's education methods, while silently getting out of the car under different treatment, resignedly removed the luggage from Felt, and stuffed it into Amuro Toru's car.

Toru Amuro also came back to his senses and got out of the car.

He glanced at Granny Qianjian's exquisite and compact suitcase, then looked at Jiang Xia who was driving the puppet, and asked casually, "Where's your luggage?"

"I forgot to bring it." The curly-haired young man said casually, "Since we are going to the annex, the owner should help prepare the necessary supplies."

"..." Toru Amuro fell silent for a moment.

The voice is so similar, could it be a relative of Matsuda?The timbre is indeed related to genetics, as well as this natural curly hair and many details of facial features...

Next to her, Granny Qianjian nodded approvingly when she saw that her suitcase was carefully arranged.

Then she opened the door very familiarly and sat in the back seat of the car.

Jiang Xia also walked to the other side and sat down.

Amuro glanced at him, and returned to the car with Kidd who was disguised as Jiang Xia.

Soon, the vehicle began to drive towards the Twilight Villa following the instructions of Grandma Qianjian.

……

Toru Amuro did know about the easy chair detective, Granny Senken.I didn't recognize him at first, but after chatting a few words, I matched the name with the person.

After a few polite words with his colleagues, he inadvertently changed the topic to something he cared more about.

Toru Amuro glanced at Jiang Xia from the rearview mirror, and asked in a natural tone: "You seem to have a Tokyo accent when you speak, are you also from Tokyo?"

Jiang Xia looked away from the window and nodded.